Re: WDSC with vista

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden H. Leverich skrev:
> > Unless you insist on blaming Microsoft for not emulating 
> > 32-bit Windows well enough so that 64-bit would not be a new platform
>
> I'm curious what the problem here is, especially w/a Java app which is abstracted from the underlying machine by the JVM. Feel free to post the answer(s) on the PC-TECH list since we are moving away from web-based here.

(trying the news interface, exciting).

WSDCi and RDI and friends are all based on Eclipse, and Eclipse use 
platform specific code...

The issue is that Eclipse use SWT instead of Swing to provide the 
graphics layer, and that - as far as I know - SWT uses JNI to call 
native code to provide a native look and feel.  JNI means platform 
dependent code, and that you basically need to maintain SWT for each 
platform Eclipse needs to run on.  This hits e.g. the OpenSolaris folks 
using the x86 platform, since nobody does that (for some reason Sun 
doesn't like Eclipse much), and here it hits the Windows64 folks since 
apparently the Windows32 emulation in Windows64 is different enough to 
give Eclipse problems.

Stuff like Netbeans should work quite out of the box just if the JVM is 
Sun-like enough (which is why Netbeans *almost* works on the i) because 
it is based on Swing, but if your platform is not supported you are 
lost, which is most likely why the AIX version of Eclipse does not work 
on the i.